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Title: Outsourced
Post by: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:41:46 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Unfortunately, yes.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Gilgamesh on August 13, 2010, 05:08:14 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

You know what's not going to suck?  Law and Order Los Angeles.

That should have it's own thread.  And it will.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:41:46 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Unfortunately, yes.

Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Bort on August 13, 2010, 09:09:30 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 


Great. Now I hate life.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Quality Start Machine on August 13, 2010, 09:19:21 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 


So? We have TDubbs. I don't see anyone making a Desipio sitcom. We need to get on that.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Chuck to Chuck on August 13, 2010, 09:50:45 AM
Quote from: Fork on August 13, 2010, 09:19:21 AM
So? We have TDubbs. I don't see anyone making a Desipio sitcom. We need to get on that.

http://www.desipio.com/?p=867
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Yeti on August 13, 2010, 10:06:13 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 


I may have chuckled a little
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Waco Kid on August 13, 2010, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:41:46 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Unfortunately, yes.

Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

I already hate it as well. Hopefully, this show will fail miserably and Parks & Rec can get back on quickly.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Gilgamesh on August 13, 2010, 01:16:06 PM
Quote from: Waco Kid on August 13, 2010, 11:12:58 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:41:46 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Unfortunately, yes.

Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

I already hate it as well. Hopefully, this show will fail miserably and Parks & Rec can get back on quickly.

A. GREED.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: ChuckD on August 13, 2010, 05:25:25 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 


This sounds kind of like that David Cross pilot if it was sold to NBC and was reworked in to TV cancer.

(Because cancer isn't funny).
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Quality Start Machine on September 27, 2010, 01:31:22 PM

What it lacked in humor it made up for in delicious racist stereotypes.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Powdered Toast Man on September 27, 2010, 01:59:49 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Wait, wut?  Did I miss something about Parks and Rec not coming back or something?
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on September 27, 2010, 02:05:20 PM
Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on September 27, 2010, 01:59:49 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Wait, wut?  Did I miss something about Parks and Rec not coming back or something?

http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=6749.msg214867#msg214867
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Powdered Toast Man on September 27, 2010, 02:09:19 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on September 27, 2010, 02:05:20 PM
Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on September 27, 2010, 01:59:49 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on August 12, 2010, 10:09:06 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 12, 2010, 10:05:32 PM
This is going to suck.

Is this still essentially replacing Parks & Rec?

Wait, wut?  Did I miss something about Parks and Rec not coming back or something?

http://www.desipio.com/messageboard/index.php?topic=6749.msg214867#msg214867

Those Communists.  Fuck that noise.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on September 30, 2010, 07:29:14 PM
Quote from: ChuckD on August 13, 2010, 05:25:25 PM
Quote from: Eli on August 13, 2010, 08:52:42 AM
Quote from: Slaky on August 13, 2010, 07:24:30 AM
Which means I hate it without having seen a second of it. Nice work, NBC.

You'd hate it worse if you saw the previews.  I've seen two jokes in the promos:

1. An Indian guy at the outsourced Indian call center (which is in India) nervously sits with his headset on, coached by his clean-cut, American boss (who signed on for a management job at a new company in the States, only to find out on his first day of work that they want him to manage a call center not in America but -- twist -- IN INDIA!  Instead of declining and finding a new job, he apparently uproots his entire life and moves across the world to a foreign country so he can manage a call center that sells novelty goods).  Anyway, the Indian guy pushes the button on his headset to take his first call ever and says in an extra-Indian accent something like "Thank you for calling, how can I help you?"  After a brief pause, he earnestly describes the clothes he is wearing and then asks what the caller is wearing.  The American boss, who seems to be modeled vaguely on a less-charismatic Michael Bluth, hangs up the phone for him and slowly says, while inhaling through his teeth, "Wrong number." 
2. There is a character named Manmeat. 


This sounds kind of like that David Cross pilot if it was sold to NBC and was reworked in to TV cancer.

(Because cancer isn't funny).

IFC advertising that David Cross show on NBC Thursday nights is a winning move.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Eli on October 18, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

This is poor news.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Slaky on October 18, 2010, 07:22:48 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 18, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

This is poor news.

This...this is horrible.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 09:32:39 AM
Quote from: Slaky on October 18, 2010, 07:22:48 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 18, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

This is poor news.

This...this is horrible.

I am reading your comments in Samir Nagheenanajar from Office Space's voice and I have to say, it makes this terrible, terrible story slightly funny.

"This is a... fuck!"

"I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window."

It's funny because they're brown.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Slaky on October 19, 2010, 10:08:25 AM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 09:32:39 AM
Quote from: Slaky on October 18, 2010, 07:22:48 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 18, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

This is poor news.

This...this is horrible.

I am reading your comments in Samir Nagheenanajar from Office Space's voice and I have to say, it makes this terrible, terrible story slightly funny.

"This is a... fuck!"

"I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window."

It's funny because they're brown.

That's what I was going for.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Gilgamesh on October 19, 2010, 10:25:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

Did you get hit with a ballpeen hammer?
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 10:25:38 AM
Quote from: Slaky on October 19, 2010, 10:08:25 AM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 09:32:39 AM
Quote from: Slaky on October 18, 2010, 07:22:48 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 18, 2010, 06:40:13 PM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 18, 2010, 05:39:46 PM
Good news, everyone!

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/nbc-gives-full-seasons-to-the-event-outsourced-and-lola

QuoteSinking ratings be darned, NBC has given full-season pick-ups to "The Event," "Law & Order: Los Angeles" and "Outsourced."

Quote..."Outsourced"...has averaged 6.3 million viewers and a 3.0 demo rating.

This is poor news.

This...this is horrible.

I am reading your comments in Samir Nagheenanajar from Office Space's voice and I have to say, it makes this terrible, terrible story slightly funny.

"This is a... fuck!"

"I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window."

It's funny because they're brown.

That's what I was going for.

Samir Naga... Naga... Naga... Notgonnaworkhereanymore.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 10:26:09 AM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on October 19, 2010, 10:25:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

Did you get hit with a ballpeen hammer?

Don't you get it? He's being ironic a troll.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Gilgamesh on October 19, 2010, 10:26:50 AM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 10:26:09 AM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on October 19, 2010, 10:25:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

Did you get hit with a ballpeen hammer?

Don't you get it? He's being ironic a troll.

Great.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 10:44:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

You are a berry, berry bad man.  [/wags finger]
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:47:33 AM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 10:26:09 AM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on October 19, 2010, 10:25:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

Did you get hit with a ballpeen hammer?

Don't you get it? He's being ironic a troll.

Yea, something like that. I watched the first episode (maybe the second, too). It was bad. Bad bad bad. Even if the jokes didn't blow, the premise of the show is just shitty. If HBO had this show and was showing some dots' tits, then maybe we'd be in business. Until then, fuck this show. Give me Parks back
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: R-V on October 19, 2010, 11:15:45 AM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 10:44:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

You are a berry, berry bad man.  [/wags finger]

Number Johnny Five, if you had a mouth I would wash it out with soaps!

(wait, what are we doing?)
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 11:32:23 AM
Quote from: R-V on October 19, 2010, 11:15:45 AM
Quote from: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 10:44:30 AM
Quote from: Yeti on October 19, 2010, 10:23:06 AM
This show is great.

You are a berry, berry bad man.  [/wags finger]

Number Johnny Five, if you had a mouth I would wash it out with soaps!

(wait, what are we doing?)

I'm not sure. But, if we were playing "browned up Fisher Stevens," you'd win.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Quality Start Machine on October 19, 2010, 02:02:02 PM
Quote from: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?

Back in January.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Eli on October 19, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
Quote from: Fork on October 19, 2010, 02:02:02 PM
Quote from: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?

Back in January.

That was the initial plan, I think. But where's it going to go now that Outsourced has a full season?  It seems like either Community or Parks and Rec is going to get screwed over here.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 02:36:46 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 19, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
Quote from: Fork on October 19, 2010, 02:02:02 PM
Quote from: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?

Back in January.

That was the initial plan, I think. But where's it going to go now that Outsourced has a full season?  It seems like either Community or Parks and Rec is going to get screwed over here.

One of the two gets bumped to summer?
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Quality Start Machine on October 19, 2010, 02:38:22 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 02:36:46 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 19, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
Quote from: Fork on October 19, 2010, 02:02:02 PM
Quote from: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?

Back in January.

That was the initial plan, I think. But where's it going to go now that Outsourced has a full season?  It seems like either Community or Parks and Rec is going to get screwed over here.

One of the two gets bumped to summer?

Something gets moved to another night.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Ivy6 on October 19, 2010, 03:28:29 PM
Quote from: Fork on October 19, 2010, 02:38:22 PM
Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on October 19, 2010, 02:36:46 PM
Quote from: Eli on October 19, 2010, 02:35:39 PM
Quote from: Fork on October 19, 2010, 02:02:02 PM
Quote from: Tony on October 19, 2010, 11:43:09 AM
So is Parks and Rec dead?

Back in January.

That was the initial plan, I think. But where's it going to go now that Outsourced has a full season?  It seems like either Community or Parks and Rec is going to get screwed over here.

One of the two gets bumped to summer?

Something gets moved to another night.

I would really like a flip of Outsourced and Community time slots.  Let Community enjoy the post-Office bump instead of leaving it to fight with Big Bang Theory.  Let BBT and Outsourced duke it out over which over-the-top stereotype is less funny.
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Gilgamesh on May 13, 2011, 06:30:33 PM
Cancelled: http://www.avclub.com/articles/nbc-cancels-outsourced,56068/
Title: Re: Outsourced
Post by: Slaky on May 13, 2011, 07:44:55 PM
Quote from: Gilgamesh on May 13, 2011, 06:30:33 PM
Cancelled: http://www.avclub.com/articles/nbc-cancels-outsourced,56068/

YES!